Rehwinkel Vasilinda Defends Trump Support On Facebook

Outgoing Tallahassee state Representative Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda is explaining why she’s against Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Rehwinkel Vasilinda was elected as a Democrat, but switched to No Party Affiliation in September.

She appeared this week with Donald Trump at his Tallahassee rally, but since then, has faced backlash on social media. In a Wednesday post on facebook, Rehwinkel Vasilinda says Hillary Clinton lost her support when Clinton voted for the War in Iraq in 2002.

“It was very disturbing and very concerning. I thought I knew her better than that. I thought she was smarter, more sophisticated and should have known better.”

My vote and decision to speak out... My conscience would not allow me to vote for Hillary Clinton. She lost my confidence and disqualified herself for...

Rehwinkel Vasilinda says she believes there’s a silent majority of people who support the Republican Presidential nominee but aren’t willing to say so because of the vitriol surrounding the campaign. She's called Trump "fascinating" and says she’s never been “a good partisan”.

During her time in the Florida legislature, Rehwinkel-Vasilinda supported guns of campus and offshore oil drilling.

“Party should never come before country. And there’s been many times over the years that I have observed politics and been in politics, that I have seen a loyalty to party over what would be good for the county, and I can tell you many stories about things that occurred in in the legislature where I thought that was the case. And it’s on both sides.”

State Democratic Representative Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda is garnering attention for her recent comments on Donald Trump, calling his policies ‘fascinating’. But a local GOP leader thinks she’s pandering to conservative voters.

To this point, Democrats in the Florida Legislature have presented a unified front in opposition to a bill allowing concealed weapons on public university and college campuses. But Wednesday two Democratic House members broke with their caucus to support the plan.

A Tallahassee lawmaker is pushing once again to repeal the state’s nuclear cost recovery clause. State Representative Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda (D-Tallahassee) says she plans to file her repeal for the fifth time in a row. Rehwinkel Vasilinda says lawmakers have made changes to the rule in the past years in an attempt to quiet voters’ concerns. But so far, she says, that hasn’t worked.

“Now we still have consumer voices being very loud and talking about the fairness of the issue and how to make rates more fair,” Rehwinkel Vasilinda says.

Presidential nominee Donald Trump brought some surprise guests to his rally in Tampa Monday night – including legendary college football coach Bobby Bowden and the return of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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